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Knowledge Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible…
- Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.
- How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time?
- Even the facts of science may dust the mind by their dryness, unless they are ... rendered fertile by the dews of fresh and living…
- Much is said about the progress of science in these centuries. I should say that the useful results of science had accumulated, but that there…
- My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to commune with the spirit of the universe, to be intoxicated with the fumes, call it,…
- Whenever I have read any part of the Vedas, I have felt that some unearthly and unknown light illuminated me. In the great teaching of…
- The imagination never forgets; it is a re-membering. It is not foundationless, but most reasonable, and it alone uses all the knowledge of the intellect.
- All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.
- How can he remember well his ignorance - which his growth requires - who has so often to use his knowledge?
- I cannot but regard it as a kindness in those who have the steering of me that, by the want of pecuniary wealth, I have…
- A man's ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful-while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly.
- Live free, child of the mist,- and with respect to knowledge we are allchildren of the mist.
- It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
- True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
- There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
- I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
- We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.
- My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and constant. The highest…
- No human being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does.
- I have lately been surveying the Walden woods so extensively and minutely that I now see it mapped in my minds eye - as, indeed,…
- It is not generally remembered, if known, by thedescendants of the Pilgrims, that when their forefathers were spending their first memorable winter in the NewWorld,…
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- Research is creating new knowledge. — Neil Armstrong
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